One Stop GK Guide - Current Affairs - Awards - Highlights 2017

January 2017

• British-Indian Cambridge professor knighted by Queen Elizabeth
• Patna received international accolades as India celebrates 350th Prakash Parv
• Nobel Prize Series India Exhibition in Gandhinagar inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi
• Barack Obama surprised Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Manish Tewari appointed as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of Atlantic Ocean
• Rudensky, Sakaguchi and Ramsdell win 2017 Crafoord Prize
• 2016 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry is won by Jacob Polley
• 25 children including 13 girls selected for National Bravery Awards
• Priyanka Chopra won the People’s Choice Awards for Favourite Dramatic TV Actress
• Corporate Social Responsibility award in aviation sector won by Delhi Airport
• Padma Awards 2017 announced by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs

February 2017

• Anish Kapoor has been awarded the Genesis Prize of Israel

March 2017

• Best University award 2017 goes to Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Humanitarian of the Year award 2017 awarded to singer Rihanna by Harvard University
• PM Narendra Modi presents Swachh Shakti Awards 2017 to Women Sarpanch
• Mohan Bhagwat awarded honorary Doctor of Science degree on 9th Mar 2017
• Mahabaleshwar Sail the Konkani writer, was honoured with Saraswati Samman 2016
• Nari Shakti Puraskar 2016 presented by President Pranab Mukherjee
• Global teacher prize won by Canadian teacher
• French Mathematician Yves Meyer won Abel Prize 2017
• in the list given by Barron's World's Best CEO title bagged by HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri
• 2016-17 Santosh Trophy won by West Bengal

April 2017

• 2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize awarded to Dawit Isaak
• 2016 ACM A M Turing Award won by Tim Berners-Lee
• Colson Whitehead's “Underground Railroad” wins Pulitzer
• President Pranab Mukherjee gives Padma awards to eminent personalities
• Historian A V Narasimha Murthy honoured with Gururaja Bhat Award
• Who won UNESCO Peace Prize - Italian mayor Giuseppina Nicolini
• Name of first female MBBS doctor from Indore who was presented with Padma Shri - Bhakti Yadav
• Kailash Satyarthi honoured with P C Chandra Puraskaar 2017
• Newton won Best Film prize at the Hong Kong Film Festival
• Ghantasala national award bagged by Vani Jairam
• Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2017 received by Aamir Khan
• Legendary filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath wins Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2016
• Poet Sankha Ghosh awarded with Jnanpith Award by president
• First Indian city to win Pierre L'Enfant Awards-2017 Bhubaneswar
• INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2017 winners announced in the last week of April

May 2017

• Padma Venkataraman bestowed with Avvaiyar award
• First city in the world to get its own Microsoft Font Dubai
• First north-eastern club to win 2016-17 I-League -Aizawl FC
• 64th National Film Awards presented by President Pranab Mukherjee
• Mark Twain Prize 2017 for American humour won by David Letterman
• Biologist Purnima Devi Barman nominated for Whitley Awards
• Indian-American student Pranay Varada wins National Geographic Bee Competition 2017
• Indian scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni wins Dan David Prize 2017
• UK Humanitarian Award won by Jacqueline Fernandez
• Intel International Science Award 2017 in the US won by India's Prashant Ranganathan
• Best Destination for Romance' award given to Kerala’s Munnar
• Global Icon Priyanka to be honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award
• Satyabrata Rout honoured with Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar

June 2017

• Anand Neelakantan, Haraprasad Das, Paramita Satpathy to be honoured with Kalinga Literary Awards
• Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Literature won by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski
• Exceptional Public Service Medal to Michael A'Hearn posthumously conferred by NASA
• Bhupen Hazarika Award 2017 won by Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi
• A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman wins Man Booker International Prize 2017 on 14th June 2017
• 144 awards to states and institutions conferred by Rural Development Ministry
• Qatar Airways announced World's Best Airline at 2017 Skytrax World Airline Awards
• Label Rheson from Sonam Kapoor's fashion wins PETA Award 2017
• Indian anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra has been chosen for Queen’s Young Leaders Award
• United Nations Public Service Award won by Bengal's Kanyashree initiative
• Femina Miss India World 2017 won by Manushi Chhillar

July 2017

• Indian of the Year Award bagged by writer Preeti  Shenoy
• Telangana IPS Officer Mahesh Bhagwat conferred the Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes Award 2017
• Indian-Americans Shantanu Narayen and Vivek Murthy honoured with Great Immigrants Award on 4th July 2017
• Golden Peacock Award for Eco-Innovation for the year 2017 won by IROAF
• Raipur's Swami Vivekananda Airport ranked first in Customer Satisfaction Index Survey
• Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions in Lok Sabha received by LK Advani

August 2017

• Actor Dev Patel honoured with Asian Game Changer Award 2017 by The Asia Society
• Rahul Doshi crowned as ‘Child Genius’ in the UK on 20th August 2017

 

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